U.K. equities ended Tuesday's session in the red, with sector losses in Mobile Telecommunications, Household Goods & Home Construction and General Retailers pushing the market lower.
At the settlement in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 was down 0.07%.
Top performers
- Intertek Group PLC (LON:ITRK) led the index, rising 6.43% or 320.00 points to close at 5,300.00.
- British American Tobacco PLC (LON:BATS) gained 5.82% or 255.00 points to finish at 4,634.00.
- Compass Group PLC (LON:CPG) added 5.76% or 1.74 points to end the day at 31.93.
Lagging names
- Vodafone Group PLC (LON:VOD) was the weakest big name, falling 7.02% or 8.45 points to close at 111.95.
- Vistry Group PLC (LON:VTYV) dropped 5.40% or 18.60 points to end at 325.80.
- 3I Group PLC (LON:III) declined 4.61% or 116.00 points to finish at 2,400.00.
Market breadth was tilted toward declines. On the London Stock Exchange, falling issues outnumbered advancing ones by 1,141 to 605, while 529 stocks finished unchanged.
Intertek's share move took the stock to a 52-week high, matching its session gain of 6.43% or 320.00 to reach 5,300.00.
Commodities and currencies
Gold futures for June delivery lost 1.12% or 53.15 to trade at $4,675.55 a troy ounce. In energy markets, crude oil for June delivery rose 3.57% or 3.50 to $101.57 a barrel, while the July Brent contract increased 3.35% or 3.49 to trade at $107.70 a barrel.
Currency moves included GBP/USD slipping 0.63% to 1.35, and EUR/GBP changing by 0.27% to 0.87. The US Dollar Index Futures was stronger, up 0.45% at 98.26.
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This session left the benchmark marginally lower despite several large individual gains and losses, with commodity and currency movements providing additional backdrop to the equity moves.